June saw the loss of several influential figures in music, sports, and beyond. Brian Wilson was the creative force behind The ...

Prison officials served death row inmate Oscar Franklin Smith his last meal Wednesday night, about 16 hours before he's scheduled to die by lethal injection. Smith, 75, requested hotdogs, tater ...

Attorney General Todd Rokita has asked the Indiana Supreme Court to set an execution date for the man who killed a Dale, ...

Missouri is one of two states where a judge can hand down death when juries cannot agree unanimously on a sentence. Since the ...

The Missouri Supreme Court last week issued a warrant for the execution of Lance Shockley, who recently exhausted his state ...

Missouri is one of two states where a judge can hand down death when juries cannot agree unanimously on a sentence.

Courtney Leader has been closely following the contentious tax-and-spending debate in Washington – not that she cares much ...

The Rev. Jeff Hood has witnessed 11 executions: four in Oklahoma, three in Alabama, two in Texas, one in Missouri and one in ...

Missouri is one of only two states in which judges can unilaterally impose the death penalty when a jury can’t agree on ...